Hanger for fur



March 7, 1933.

M. GRAY I HANGER FOR FUR Filed May 24, 1950 Patented Mar. 7, 1933 @NHTEDSTATES MAX GRAY, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA HANGER FOR FUR Applicationfiled May 24,

My invention has for its object to provide an improved hanger foranimal-headed furs having pivoted spring lever clips on their fur heads;and to this end my invention consists of a wire hanger having the novelfeatures hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim. 7

The preferred form of my improved hanger is illustrated in theaccompanying drawing. In said drawing like notations refer to like partsthroughout the several views.

Fig. 1 is a view chiefly in side elevation, but with some parts shown insection, with the hanger in fur suspending position and the position ofthe fur shown partly in dotted lines;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 22 of Fig. 1 with some partsbroken away;

Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 33 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 4 is a view in side elevation showing the lower portion of aslightly modified type of hanger detached.

The numeral 5 represents partly in dotted lines, an animal-headed furwith the lower portion of the fur broken away. Such furs, when incondition for use by wearers, usually have pivoted spring lever clipssecured to the under aw portions of the animal heads. These clips areusually made u of a base piece 6 of metal and a lever piece 7 of metalcovered by embroidered fabric 7 a and pivoted to the base piece andsubject to a spring 8 so applied that it tends to keep the forward 5ends of the clip members in closed position, bearing against each other.To this end, the base piece 6 has ear-like bearing lugs 9 and the top orlever piece 7 has cooperating ear lugs 10 and which two sets of lugs arepivotally connected together by the pivot pin 11 passing therethrough asbest shown in Fig. 3. The spring 8 has its body portion coiled aroundthe pivot pin 11 and its ends extend- 4 ing therefrom and bearingrespectively against the base 6 and the top or lever piece '4'. The saidspring 8 is applied under tension so that its opposite ends tend tothrow the rear ends of said parts 6 and 7 apart F from each other andtheir front ends together.

In other Words, the structure and function 1930. Serial No.- 455,258.

of these parts is that of an ordinary spring clip. Such a clip may besecured to the fur 5 in any suitable way, but this is ordinarily done bycutting a slit in the hide of thefur 1 at'the jaw of the animal andanother slit in the nose part of the hide and then inserting the baseportion Goof the clip underneath the hide through the said slits andthen sewing up the slits, so that the clip will thereby be securelyheldto the fur by the if engagement of its base with the hide of thefur. With such a clip, 'so applied, to'the head portion of the fur, thepivot lugs 9 and 10 and the pivot pin 11 will project a short distanceoutward fromthe fur at the jaw portion of the animal headand the pivotedspring pressed lever 7 will be. in position for manipulation by thehand.

My improved hanger was designed for. application to such a clip equippedfur. I form the hanger, as shown-in Figs. 1 to 3, from a single piece ofresilient wire 13 which is bent twice .upon itself to aiford at itslower end on open-mouthed resilient wedge-shaped loop 1 1, which isnarrower at its mouth than it is at its body portion and which loop 14 vis adapted to engage with the pivot lugs 9 and 10 of the spring clip onthe fur head. This engagement is eifected by sliding movement of thehanger relative to said pivot lugs of the clip so as to bring the loopof the hanger into the position shown in Fig. 1. The double bends of theloop 14 in the wire 13 will spring apart at the mouth of the loop 14 farenough to permit the said loop to be 5 readily placed in position forengaging said l pivot lugs and then will again close toward each other,under the spring action far enough to prevent the hanger and fur fromaccidental separation. The said resilient wire 13 is also bent uponitself to afiord, at i its upper end, a portion 15 adapted to engagewith an overhead support 16, asshown in Fig. 1, to hold the hanger andthe fur in suspended position. As shown, the said portion 15 is in theform of a hook adapted to engage over the support 16, but said portionmight be in the form of an eyeadapted to engage over a nail, screw orother projection.

The said wire 13 is also bent upon itself-to afford, in its medianportion, an eye-like loop 17 for the attachment of a tag 12 fordisplaying the price or the identification of the fur.

In Fig. 4 the lower portion of a slightly different form of hanger 18 isillustrated. The hanger 18 is formed from wire and is bent twice uponitself to form an openmouthed resilient loop 19 similar in all respectsto the loop 14, with the exception that the loop 19 instead of beingwedge shaped, has a narrow straight mouth portion joining 'a widestraight inner or receiving portion.

The resiliency of the mouth portion will hold the loop 19 in engagementwith the lugs 9 and 10 of the spring clip.

My improved hanger above described is cheap to make and easy to apply tothe spring clip on the fur without injury of any kind to the fur andwithout tearing or wearing the embroidered fabric 7a covering the leverpiece 7 of the spring clip.

The efliciency of my improved hanger has been demonstrated by the actualusage thereof for suspending animal headed furs.

What is claimed is A hanger for animal headed furs having spring leverclips on the fur heads, which hanger consists of a single piece ofresilient Wire having a shank portion and a pair of vertically spaced,laterally projecting, reversely bent, portions joining the lower end ofsaid shank portion and forming therebetween an open mouthed, resilientloop engageable with the pivot lugs of the spring clip, the outer endsof said reversely bent portions being more closely vertically spacedthan the inner ends thereof.

In testimony whereof I aflixmy signature.

MAX GRAY.

